fleetingly
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However fleetingly, Kafka and his unmoored translators found in literature a place of belonging that felt impossible to them in life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
True to its Greek name meaning "unstable," it exists only fleetingly in nature.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
It’s a phenomenon fleetingly rare among mammals, found only in some primates, bats, and elephant shrews.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
The ensemble includes 30 actors onstage and many more on video, who appear fleetingly as spirits, royal subjects or rabble-rousers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024
And finally, if you yawned as you read this, did the thought cross your mind — however unconsciously and fleetingly — that you might be tired?
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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